Well, it's been a brutal summer for severe weather across nearly every part of the United States.

And last night the Midwest bore the brunt of it for details. We turn now to Stephanie sigh with that and the day's other headlines.

Stephanie?

Thanks, Jeff and Amna.

The Midwest was dealt a deadly combination of heavy rains and tornadoes overnight.

The storms knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people across the state of Illinois.

In Nashville, in southern Illinois, cars were partially submerged amid flash flooding after reports of dam failures in the area.

Damage was also widespread in the Chicago area where tree trunks fell on cars and crashed through

rooftops.

A 44-year-old woman was killed after a tree fell on her home. Others

scrambled for shelter to avoid the danger. We kind of heard a gust of wind that

came up quick and we decided my uncle decided that we all go in the basement and as we went

in the basement we heard the big thump and the tree fall on the house.

I've never seen that before like a tree just it just came out of the whole root came out of the ground

meanwhile just under a hundred thousand Texans are still waiting for power to be restored

more than a week since Hurricane Barrel made landfall there.

Today a group of Houston area restaurants filed a $100 million lawsuit against

Centerpoint energy over its response to the storm. In the Middle East, Israeli

airstrikes across south and central Gaza killed more than 60 Palestinians

overnight and through today. The deadliest attack hit near a refugee camp in the southern

city of Han Yunus. Hospital officials say 17 people were killed. The area is

considered a humanitarian safe zone where the Israeli military has told

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